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The Roasting Pan Resonator . . . a 3-string, resonator guitar handcrafted primarily from flotsam and jetsom discovered around the house and/or in some of southern Missouri's most discriminating junk emoriums (with the exception of cone, etc from Stew Mac). I'm including a video, should you wish to hear how the beast sounds.

The Roasting Pan Resonator was built in my garage, with assistance from numerous spiders, roaches, and at least one lizard. I've built a couple hundred instruments over the years - some I sell, some I keep, and some I give away to friends/family. The only consistency found in all of them is that they're built out of odd things.

Why is it called 'Leftovers'? Because it was made largely from bits of wood and hardware, some unused sets, some offcuts, some abandoned bits, that have been hanging around just taking up space over the past few years. The only major specific purchases were the top wood and the Shadow pickup/eq set.

I have built it for my own use to give me a guitar configuration that sounds good fingerpicking (which my first acoustic build, an OM shape, does) but also sounds full and even when strummed (which my OM doesn't really!)

I've been modding guitars - mainly electric 6 strings and basses - for around 8 years, and did my first full build 6 years ago. I am essentially a hobby builder but have been asked from time to time to do commissioned builds, which is a very fulfilling thing to do, especially when you see the big grin on the new owner's face when you hand it across

The build diary for 'Leftovers' is here:

The spec is:

25.5" Dreadnought Acoustic

London Plane Tree back and sides bought 'just in case' on a previous build

European spruce top

Maple/walnut/maple neck - offcut from a previous build

Macassar Ebony fretboard - offcut from a previous build

Tasmanian Burl Eucalyptus rosette - donated by out very own forumite @curtisa

EVO Gold Frets

Mix 'n match locking tuners - leftovers from a previous build

Ronseal polyurethane varnish, brushed on

Shadow Doubleplay on-board piezo/magnetic pickup and eq system

Elixir nanoweb 10-47 strings

Here are some pictures:

There are some rough old unplugged sound clips here - rough because of my playing - recorded on a zoom hand-recorder: